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2014/05/02

Kicking the deep state off the US land (The U.S. in 20th/21st c., Part 3)

Foreign Policy has published this week an article by Andrew Foxall titled ‘Kicking Putin off the Island’ that I found typical of doublethink. [1] 

(Image source)
Doublethink is shortly characterized by an inversion of logic. The victim is targeted as being the aggressor, etc. It is easy to replace things in the correct order when you know that. This is thus what I’ve decided to perform with Foxall’s article, keeping as much as possible close to the original sentences for demonstration purpose, and updating links.
A second factor was the relevant mention of the central role of the civil society in the liberation process, what I called in French “peupler l’espoir” in a footnote of the previous part of this serie ('The inevitable counter-revolution of the American people'). P.D. Scott has written about this role too.[1b]

I’ve chosen to not simply replace the name Putin by Obama in the original text because the U.S. political context is much more complex: Obama is the world’s loneliest leader, isolated and surrounded by stupidity. He is the consenting prisoner of the U.S. deep state

The only order that is really worth anything does not come through the enforcement [...] of law, it comes through the establishment of a society which is just and in which harmonious relationships are established and in which you need a minimum of regulation to create decent sets of arrangements among people. But the order based on law and on the force of law is the order of the totalitarian state, and it inevitably leads either to total injustice or to rebellion-eventually. 
"The Problem is Civil Obedience", Howard Zinn (May 5, 1970) 



Kicking the deep state off the U.S. land

The United States of America after Obama don't need to be ruled by the deep state, and driving a wedge between the president and his craven inner circle is the first step. 


The deep state has directly or indirectly ruled the U.S. since 1963. And, after 50 years in power, there are few signs that he will abdicate his position anytime soon. Using the voice of Hillary Clinton, the deep state has stated it may seek re-election in 2016, meaning he would rule until 2020 -- by which time it will rule since 57 years. 

No tyranny, however, lasts forever -- Hitler's 1,000-year Reich lasted all of 12 years -- and it is in this context that we should view the deep state's rule. Its power is not what it once was: The social contract it implicitly built with the American people in his earlier years -- he could do whatever he liked, as long as life improved for many of them -- is broken. High rates of economic growth are long gone, and so too is the increasing standard of living that they provided. Americans are becoming restless and, although the opposition congressmen as a whole are cowed and quiet (with a very few exceptions), opposition movement have performed well in recent election polls. The deep state resorted to destabilizing Ukraine (at least, in part) to boost its falling approval ratings, which are now record low

While many U.S.-watchers cannot imagine the country without the deep state at the helm, it's time for leaders to start. In confronting a moribund, revanchist transnational deep state, the world must have a clear vision of the ideal post-deep state America. 

In a lot of ways, Obama was an unlikely president. As the first African-American President of the United States, his race and culture have played a prominent role in this, both positively and negatively. His relative youth (47 when elected) has alternately resulted in his being praised for his freshness and criticized for his inexperience. His temperament and demeanor have drawn praise for his perceived unflappability and criticism for the perception of his lacking emotional attachment. [2] When G.W. Bush stepped down on January 2009, Obama became acting president. One of his first acts was to order the first two Predator airstrikes of his presidency in Pakistan. The Guardian described the deep state recently as having "brought darkness to America," but, driven and certain of his own staying power, it ascended without hesitation. It hasn't looked back since its inception. 

Since decades, the deep state has fostered a grotesquely decayed, corrupt, illiberal system that constrains democracy, centralizes all power, curtails media freedoms, reins in the judiciary, restricts civil liberties, and treads on human rights. Outside of U.S., the regime carries out extrajudicial murder, engages in the arbitrary use of force, and promotes Washington interests with utter disregard for international norms. 

It wasn't always this way. 

Up to 1963, the U.S. had the potential to develop along a liberal-democratic path. The country was a multiparty democracy in which officials were chosen in regular elections; its fledgling economy was based on markets and private property, and its media independent and pluralistic. Starting 1989, the Russian military withdrew peacefully from Eastern Europe and the Soviet successor states, pursued cooperation with the West on nuclear disarmament, although Russia was forced to accept the expansion of NATO. To be sure, serious issues remained (not the least of which, U.S. deep state above the legal system and its pervasive nature of organized crime), but the country was headed in a promising direction when its government strongly reduced deficits and curbed debt. U.S. President Bill Clinton described this period as "a time of real possibility and opportunity." 

Except with the visible growing inequality, nowhere is the deep state's impact on U.S. as visible as in the country's political sphere. Since the 1963 parliamentary elections - the last before JFK was killed – the two parties are increasingly polarized. In the most recent parliamentary elections, in 2013, polarization in the House and Senate is at the highest level since the end of Reconstruction. 

Since the ‘Halloween Massacre’ in November 1975, the deep state assembled an inner circle of individuals that would assist the top executives in building a "new" USA. Although the faces have changed over the years, many remain the same, or share the same ideology of Christian Reconstructionism

Pr. P.D. Scott has described this inner circle consists of linked groups of people. It is a cohort of individuals who control key sectors of U.S. kleptocratic economy and its brutal security services, but who've never felt the heat of sanctions over U.S. actions in foreign countries -- something European Court of Human Rights has called a "cruel and inhuman treatment." By targeting these individuals in this inner circle, the world would drive a wedge between the deep state and his closest allies. But it can do more to weaken his standing. 

Sanctions should become the status quo, and they should go further than visa bans and asset freezes, to include asset seizures. Given the choice between siding with the deep state and protecting some of their vast wealth stored in others capitals and financial centers, enough of them will go with the latter. 

The friction and resentment that this creates will demonstrate the growing fissures within the deep state -- over what is needed to improve U.S. economy, what direction the country is headed, and whether international isolation is sensible -- and may even lead to U.S. citizens deciding the country needs new leadership. This would make clear to the next generation of politicians, policymakers, and businessmen that being associated with the deep state and his system comes with a price. 

If the world is going to uproot the deep state, it must remember that past successes employed more subtle strategic campaigns. The West likes to say to have won the Cold War because of the superiority of capitalism over Soviet communism, but one of the most subversive -- and effective -- acts it undertook was to offer visas to Soviet students as part of "cultural exchange" programs. In doing so, the students were exposed to the West's democratic and liberal values and took these back to germinate in the Motherland. When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's twin reformist policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring") took hold, Soviet citizens were equipped to take advantage. In the words of one U.S. foreign service officer involved in these programs, those citizens "came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same." 

Now, once again, all countries should liberalize their visa regimes with the West, rather than follow the European Union's lead in freezing talks on a visa-free regime. This will make it easier for the next generation of U.S. decision-makers to expose themselves to liberal-democratic values and, as a result, they will be far better prepared when the deep state leaves power. 

Offering cultural exchanges may seem like a long-term program, but in the short-term the West could pay more attention to countering the deep state's increasingly anti-Russia propaganda in the West. Across the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe broadcasts were an important alternative to the Kremlin's communication. Now, because the Western leaders are reviving a Cold War thinking, all countries must provide money, expertise, technology, and support for English and Spanish-language broadcasting in America. This would meet the deep state's propaganda head-on, and begin to drive out bad information with good. It would send a clear message that the world is not going to give up on the U.S. deep state just yet. 

It is not possible to turn the clock back to a pre-deep state era, but that doesn't mean the world should consign the U.S. to the dustbin of history. Despite what political scientists might claim, it is not inevitable that the post-deep state U.S. will be fascist again. Although politicians are embattled and less prominent than they used to be, there are still capacity to take offense in the U.S.. Even the Soviet Union's Politburo was not as monolithic as many assumed. Whether the end of the deep state's rule is evolutionary or revolutionary, the world must be clear about how it hopes to see U.S. develop; it must be willing to put long-term strategic objectives over short-term economic interests. 

U.S. without the deep state is cloaked in uncertainty, and there is no guarantee it would be more democratic or liberal -- when anti-government protests broke out in the U.S., they had more to do with rejecting the 1% than rejecting the deep state’s take-no-prisoners style of leadership. But the world leaders should help guide a post-deep state U.S. for the sake of the U.S. people, Europe, and the world as a whole. Governments should engage in dialogue with american NGOs and civil society [3], supporting those battling corruption and promoting human rights, civil liberties. They ought to speak to U.S. politicians actively supporting these goals in their country, committed to establish a constitutional convention and a political awakening among citizens

The deep state might be influencing Western governments to flex their military muscles in Ukraine and demonstrating their steely indifference to political demands from the citizens, but in the end it is the others governments and civil society, and not the transnational deep state, who could ultimately determine U.S.'s future. 

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[1] As Georges Orwell defined it in his book 1984: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.[...] 
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.” 

[1b] Peter Dale Scott ; see also his conclusion chapter in "Road to 9/11 - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America”, Peter Dale Scott, University of California Press, 2007.

[2] Wikipedia.org; accessed 5/1/2014. 

[3] A short list of insightful initiatives or articles:
 National Liberty Alliance successfully promotes a constitutional convention ;
Fighting the Militarized State’, Truthdig (03/2014) ;
Maryland lawmakers want to cripple the NSA's headquarters’, The Verge (02/2014) ;
Corporatocracy: How the Corporate Welfare State Divides & Conquers’, Boiling Frogs Post (02/2014) ;
How to Dismantle the American Empire’, von Mises Institute (02/2014) ;
Get ready: the day we fight back against mass surveillance is coming’, The Guardian (02/2014) ;
The costume of Constitutionality’, Justice On Line (01/2014) ;
Restoring Our American Legacy. A politically incorrect guide to building wealth, security and effective political action in the 21st century’, The Daily Bell, Fall 2013 ;
Were America’s Founders ‘unhinged’ and suffering from a ‘meltdown’? Foreign Policy Journal, (01/2014) ;
The Fight of Our Lives’, Anti War (01/2014) ;
The Last Gasp of American Democracy’ Truthdig, (01/2014) ;
The Greatest Gift for All’, Foreign Policy Journal (12/2013) ;
How to Democratize the US Economy: A long-term plan to renovate the American dream begins at the local level and scales up’, The Nation (10/2013) ;
How the NSA Made Your Legal Defense Illegal’, von Mises Institute (03/2014) ;
Citizens’ Grand Jury initiative ;
"The Problem is Civil Obedience", Howard Zinn (May 5, 1970); a 2012 video is available ;
Olivier Stone’s Untold History of the United States ;
Let’s Get This Class War Started’, Truthdig (10/2013) ;
Stand up, Americans’, Paul Craig Roberts (10/2013) ;
Re-Decentralizing the Fed’, Project Syndicate (10/2013) ;
The Banality of Systemic Evil’, NY Times (09/2013) ;
Government Nullification: The Rightful Remedy and How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century’, Foreign Policy Journal (09/2013) ;
Initiatives like Consensus911 / AE911 / Reopen911 / 9/11 & War on Terrorism (on GlobalResearch).


2014/03/10

#SniperGate

I published this news thread about #SniperGate  first in a comment of the previous article, using Google +.  This comment has been shortly censored by Google (I asked to put it under review, but it is not visible until the end of the review process - up to some days).
Thus I decided to publish it into a new article.

This practice is very often used by Western surveillance apparatus in order to avoid a story to become viral, as reported by Greenwald based on Snowden documents.

So far, no Western media has reported EU declaration 03/07 calling for an international and independant investigation. Only a few others newspapers did it (see in red below).

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Kiievi kokkupõrgetes kaotas elu vähemalt kolm meeleavaldajat 
02/18/2014 
http://www.postimees.ee/2701392/kiievi-kokkuporgetes-kaotas-elu-vahemalt-kolm-meeleavaldajat
Olga Bogomolets' words reported by news portal Ukrainska Pravda this day :
Kiievi kesklinnas toimunud kokkupõrgete ajal sai surma kolm inimest, kelle surnukehad asuvad praegu Ohvitseride majas olevas medpunktis.
«Meie medpunktis, mis asub Ohvitseride majas, on juba kolm hukkunut. Paljud on vigastatud, neist kümmekond raskelt,» rääkis Olga Bogomolets uudisteportaalile Ukrainska Pravda.
Naise sõnul surid need inimesed sellepärast, et neil ei õnnestunud saada õigeaegset abi. «Kiirabiautosid ei lubata sissesõidu ega väljapääsu juurde. Inimesed surevad, kuna neile ei saa osutada õigeaegset abi.»
Bogomoletsi sõnul oli kõigil kolmel kuulihaavad. Neid oli nii peas, kui südames, lisas ta.

Ukraine crisis: British forensic experts in Kiev 
02/25/2014 

Ukraine: Secretive Neo-Nazi Military Organization Involved in Euromaidan Sniper Shootings 
03/03/2014 

Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tape 
03/05/2014 

В интернет выложили разговор Эштон и главы МИД Эстонии о снайперах в Киеве
03/05/2014
http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2014/03/5/7017758/
The commentary of Ольга Богомолец (Dr. Olga Bogomolets) as reported by Ukrainian Pravda:
В то же время доктор Ольга Богомолец также прокомментировала этот разговор: "За все время противостояний в Киеве, я не имела доступа к погибшим правоохранителям, поэтому не могла комментировать характер их ранений".
"Я врач, а не судебный медицинский эксперт для того, чтобы давать такого рода оценки", - отметила она.
"18-20 февраля мне пришлось общаться с огромным количеством людей и сложно сейчас вспомнить всех и особенно, о чем мы тогда говорили. Но упомянутую тему точно не обсуждала по телефону и никогда не обсуждаю политические темы по телефону" , - добавила Богомолец.
Украинская правда

Ukraine crisis: March 5 as it happened
03/05/2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10677370/Ukraine-Russia-crisis-live.html
Our correspondent, Damien McElroy, has spoken to the doctor at the centre of the claims that snipers that shot people in Kiev were hired by Maidan leaders:
Olga Bogomolets said she had not told Mr Paet that policemen and protesters had been killed in the same manner.
"Myself I saw only protesters. I do not know the type of wounds suffered by military people," she told The Telegraph. "I have no access to those people."
But she said she had asked for a full forensic criminal investigation into the deaths that occurred in the Maidan. "No one who just sees the wounds when treating the victims can make a determination about the type of weapons. I hope international experts and Ukrainian investigators will make a determination of what type of weapons, who was involved in the killings and how it was done. I have no data to prove anything.
"I was a doctor helping to save people on the square. There were 15 people killed on the first day by snipers. They were shot directly to the heart, brain and arteries. There were more than 40 the next day, 12 of them died in my arms.
"Our nation has to ask the question who were the killers, who asked them to come to Ukraine. We need good answers on the basis of expertise."
Mr Paet's assertion that an opposition figure was behind the Maidan massacre was not one she could share.
"I think you can only say something like this on the basis of fact," she said. "Its not correct and its not good to do this. It should be based on fact."
She said the new government in Kiev had assured her a criminal investigation had begun but that she had not direct contact with it so far.
"They told me they have begun a criminal process and if they say that I believe them. The police have not given me any information on it."

Les snipers à Kiev ont été enrôlés par les dirigeants de l' EuroMaïdan
03/05/2014 

Call raises questions about Ukraine attacks
03/05/2014 
http://www.kspr.com/news/nationworld/Call-raises-questions-about-Ukraine-attacks/21051646_24830882

Is hacked phone call of Ukraine sniper attacks evidence of exopolitics conflict?
03/05/2014 
http://www.examiner.com/article/is-hacked-phone-call-of-ukraine-sniper-attacks-evidence-of-exopolitics-conflict

British EU chief Ashton hears Ukraine shooting claim in bugged call 
03/05/2014 

Maidan: Handelten Scharfschützen im Auftrag der neuen Koalition?
03/05/2014 
03/05/2014 

Välisminister Urmas Paeti ja EL välispoliitika juhi Catherine Ashtoni telefonikõnest 
03/05/2014 

Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call on Kiev snipers 
03/05/2014 

Ukraine Protests: Leaked EU Phone Call Suggests Kiev Snipers Were Hired by Opposition Coalition
03/05/2014 

Ukraine: Kiev snipers reportedly hired by opposition leaders not Yanukovich according to 'bugged call' 
03/05/2014 

Kiev snipers hired by new coalition, not Yanukovych - Estonian FM to Ashton 
03/05/2014 

Ucraina. Estonia: confermata telefonata Paet-Ashton su cecchini Kiev
03/05/2014 

Estonia FM: Kiev snipers from new Ukrainian coalition
03/05/2014
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/kiev-snipers-were-opposition-hitmen/article5754177.ece

Un ministro de Estonia informó a Ashton que la represión en Kiev fue obra de francotiradores de la oposición
03/05/2014 

Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers 
03/05/2014 

Estonia denies leaked call implicates Ukraine protesters in killings 
03/05/2014 

L’agression de la Russie via l’Ukraine par le bloc occidentaliste euro-transatlantique menace la paix mondiale, dont le maintien dépend de la détermination de Vladimir Poutine.   Comité Valmy
Urmas Paet et Catherine Ashton ou la nécessité d’enquêter sur les snipers de Kiev 
03/05/2014 

Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked phone call discussing how Kiev snipers who shot protesters were possibly hired by Ukraine's new leaders

Abgehörtes Telefonat nährt Spekulationen über Maidan-Scharfschützen
03/05/2014 
http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2014-03/kiew-ukraine-telefonat-ashton-paet

BUSTED: Leaked Phone Tape with EU’s Ashton reveals, Kiev Snipers hired by Maidan Leaders
03/05/2014 

Geleaktes Telefonat: Maidan-Regierung für Scharfschützen verantwortlich
03/05/2014 

Scharfschützen auf dem Maidan: Heikles Telefonat zwischen Ashton und estnischem Minister veröffentlicht
03/05/2014

Brisantes Telefonat Mit Catherine Ashton Angeblich Abgehört  
Scharfschützen! Was wussten die Maidan-Chefs?
03/05/2014

Wer schoss auf dem Maidan?


03/05/2014
http://www.tageblatt.lu/nachrichten/welt/story/Wer-schoss-auf-dem-Maidan--19201818

Brisantes Telefongespräch abgehörtWer waren die Kiewer Scharfschützen?
03/05/2014
http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Wer-waren-die-Kiewer-Scharfschuetzen-article12403406.html

Estland bestätigt Authentizität des Gesprächs über Scharfschützen auf Maidan
03/05/2014

Ukraine: Scharfschützen von Maidan-Anführern angeheuert
03/05/2014
Heikles Telefonat mit Ashton: Estland besorgt über Kiewer Regierung
03/05/2014
http://www.tt.com/home/8038001-91/heikles-telefonat-mit-ashton-estland-besorgt-%C3%BCber-kiewer-regierung.csp

MAIDAN-SCHARFSCHÜTZEN SCHOSSEN AUF POLIZISTEN UND DEMONSTRANTEN
03/05/2014

«I cecchini a Kiev? Mandati dall’opposizione». La frase shock del ministro estone con lady Ashton
03/05/2014 

Leaked phone tape raises claim that opposition involved in sniper attacks in Kiev
03/06/2014 
http://www.panorama.am/en/popular/2014/03/06/leaked-phone-talk/

Kamen die Scharfschützen aus der Opposition?
03/06/2014 
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/41/41162/1.html

Abgehörtes Telefonat mit Ashton
Ein Gespräch, das nichts beweist
03/06/2014 

Un législateur russe décrit la préoccupation de l'UE sur la démocratie ukrainienne comme "fausse" 
03/06/2014 

Ukraine Opposition Behind Snipers in Kiev According to a Leaked Phone Call 
03/06/2014 

ESTONIE - Catherine Ashton piratée
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères estonien confirme le contenu
03/06/2014
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2014/03/06/catherine-ashton-piratee

Wer heuerte die Maidan-Todesschützen wirklich an?
03/06/2014
http://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/wer-toetete-100-demonstranten-die-schwierige-suche-nach-den-moerdern-vom-maidan_id_3668731.html

Ukraine: Maidan, tödliche Schüsse und ein Telefonat
03/06/2014

Zwischen Catherine Ashton und dem estnischen Außenminister
Abgehörtes Telefonat sorgt für Aufsehen
03/06/2014

Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders: leaked Ashton phone tape
03/06/2014
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1572792

Who Were the Kiev Snipers?
03/06/2014 
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march062014/kiev-snipers-mm.php

Die Kiewer Eskalationsstrategie
03/06/2014 

Leaked call raises questions about who was behind sniper attacks in Ukraine
03/06/2014

Ukraine : une rumeur accuse l’opposition d‘être les snipers de Maïdan 
03/06/2014 

Les tireurs d'élite de Kiev engagés par l'opposition? 
03/06/2014 

Et si l'opposition avait fait appel aux snipers? 
03/06/2014 

Recorded call reveals Ukraine opposition snipers, not Yanukovych, fired on protestors in Kiev
03/06/2014 
http://www.prnewschannel.com/2014/03/06/recorded-call-reveals-ukraine-opposition-snipers-not-yanukovych-fired-on-protestors-in-kiev/

Estonian FM denies leaked call blamed opposition
03/06/2014 

L’Estonie confirme une conversation piratée avec Catherine Ashton 
03/06/2014 

The founder of the Civil Platform party, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov calls for international inquiry into Kyiv snipers
03/06/2014 

Wer hat auf dem Maidan geschossen?
03/06/2014 

Ashton Telephone Leak : Russian Parliament to Investigate Kiev Sniper Shootings
03/06/2014 

Spekulationen über die Maidan-Scharfschützen
03/06/2014

Wer hat die Demonstranten auf dem Maidan erschossen?
03/06/2014
http://www.welt.de/politik/article125501429/Wer-hat-die-Demonstranten-auf-dem-Maidan-erschossen.html

Ukraine/snipers: l'UE propose d'ouvrir une enquête
03/07/2014 

Wer schoss auf die Demonstranten in Kiew?

Wer ist für die Todesschüsse verantwortlich?
03/07/2014 
http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/specials/id_68374062/ukraine-wer-ist-fuer-die-todesschuesse-auf-dem-maidan-verantwortlich-.html

Abgehörte Telefone im Informationskrieg
03/07/2014
http://www.20min.ch/ausland/news/story/Abgehoerte-Telefone-im-Informationskrieg-25211064

100 Tote auf dem MaidanWer ist für die Todesschüsse verantwortlich?
03/07/2014
http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/926200.maidan-aerztin-weist-scharfschuetzen-verdacht-zurueck.html

Scharfschützen vom Maidan – Untersuchungsergebnisse sollen demnächst präsentiert werden
03/07/2014
03/07/2014 

Russia and Ukraine give different versions of sniper tragedy that drove Yanukovych from power
03/07/2014 
03/08/2014 

Russia calls for OSCE probe into Kiev sniper deaths
03/08/2014 

Latest reports about Kiev 'snipers' affair' cannot be 'swept under carpet' - Lavrov
03/08/2014 

Russia wants probe into Kiev sniper 'cover-up'
03/08/2014
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Russia-wants-probe-into-Kiev-sniper-cover-up-20140308

La Russie demande une enquête sur l'affaire des snipers à Kiev
03/08/2014
https://www.medias24.com/filafp/afp-761-La-Russie-demande-une-enquete-sur-l-affaire-des-snipers-a-Kiev.html

Russia calls for OSCE probe into Kiev sniper deaths
03/08/2014 

Moscow and Kiev spar over who was to blame for deadly sniper attacks
03/08/2014 

On whose side were the Kiev snipers? Russia and Ukraine trade blame
03/08/2014 
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.578576

Prominent Ukrainian doctor is no ordinary revolutionary
03/08/2014 
Dr. Olga Bogomolets spoke at length with The Globe and Mail about her frustration with the government’s response to Maidan and the pressure she is facing to run for president in May. The new government brought “in a few new faces, but our goal was not to change the faces,” she said. “We are just coming back to what was before, just a different picture, a little bit of a different picture."

La Russie demande une enquête sur l'affaire des snipers à Kiev 
03/08/2014 

Russian envoy at UN calls for thorough investigation of regime change in Kiev
03/08/2014
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/722744

Russia wants OSCE to probe Kiev sniper 'cover-up' as mission is turned away from Crimea
03/08/2014
http://tribune.com.pk/story/680466/russia-wants-osce-to-probe-kiev-sniper-cover-up-as-mission-is-turned-away-from-crimea/

Russia, Ukraine feud over sniper carnage 
03/08/2014 

L'UPR demande au gouvernement de s'associer à la demande de la Russie d’une enquête de l'OSCE sur l'affaire des snipers à Kiev 
03/08/2014 

Kiev: la Russie veut une enquête de l'OSCE 
03/08/2014 

03/09/2014 

Moscou demande une commission d’enquête 
03/09/2014 

Ukraine: chez Russia Today la guerre Médiatique est une chose vulgaire 
03/09/2014 

Mystery over identity of snipers who caused city bloodbath
03/09/2014 
http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/mystery-over-identity-of-snipers-who-caused-city-bloodbath-1-3333574

Violent events that led to change of power in Ukraine must be investigated - Russia's UN envoy

'Who the EU is Supporting in Kiev Will Worry Europeans'
03/10/2014 
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13921217001427

Gündemi sarsan ses kaydı: "Maydan'da muhalefetin sniper'lari iki tarafa ateş açtı"
03/12/2014 
http://www.turkrus.com/64615-gundemi-sarsan-ses-kaydi-maydanda-muhalefetin-sniperlari-iki-tarafa-ates-acti-xh.aspx

Kiev snipers shooting from bldg controlled by Maidan forces – Ex-Ukraine security chief
03/13/2014
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-snipers-security-chief-438/

Washington sanctioning Democracy and hailing Nazism
03/20/2014 

Kiev snipers, the regime and Yanukovych
04/03/2014


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2014/03/06

Russia, the Budapest memorandum, and the crisis of representativeness


Steven Blockmans published today a short commentary on Russia and the Budapest Memorandum. It is an assault against Russia foreign politics, and he wrote in his conclusion:
"So far, the Kremlin has not bothered to seriously rebut allegations by the US and the EU that it has violated the terms of the Budapest memorandum.

More worryingly, the Moscow allows itself to be inconsistent with its own commitments and is reneging its own words.

This has all the trappings of a panicking dictatorship, which crushes dissent at home and portrays confidence in winning a great battle with the enemy abroad. How can anybody trust what Putin’s Russia says or commits to in the future?"
My comments:

1) As a Professor of Law, he started with the Budapest Memorandum, but he failed to discuss the Helsinki CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE (CSCE) Final Act mentioned in Article 1. This one states:
The participating States [...] Have adopted the following:
I Prior notification of major military manoeuvres They will notify their major military manoeuvres to all other participating States through usual diplomatic channels in accordance with the following provisions:
Notification will be given of major military manoeuvres exceeding a total of 25,000 troops, independently or combined with any possible air or naval components (in this context the word "troops" includes amphibious and airborne troops). In the case of independent manoeuvres of amphibious or airborne troops, or of combined manoeuvres involving them, these troops will be included in this total. Furthermore, in the case of combined manoeuvres which do not reach the above total but which involve land forces together with significant numbers of either amphibious or airborne troops, or both, notification can also be given.
Notification will be given of major military manoeuvres which take place on the territory, in Europe, of any participating State as well as, if applicable, in the adjoining sea area and air space.
You read correctly: no notification are required below 25,000 troops. 16,000 is lower.

More: Because of the agreement signed on 21 April 2010 between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents, Russia is allowed to maintain thousands of troops in Crimea, without mentioning others in surrounding coasts (Gudauta, Krasnodar Kra).

2) Professor of Law Steven Blockmans failed to mention that M. Yanukovich has not resigned, is still alive and is still constitutionally the current legitimately elected Ukraine President, whatever Kiev may claim. No current power in Kiev is legitimate. Thus, they cannot claim themselves to be "the Ukraine government" and claim from this position that Russia has invaded Crimea. Moreover, Crimea is an autonomous republic within Ukraine, electing its own parliament. Crimea political representatives have not claimed to be invaded by Russia.

There was an armed seizure of power in Kiev and a legitimately elected president was overthrown. This was a violation of Ukraine’s constitution. Who cannot agree with this fact? 

3) Steven Blockmans failed to mention that Leaked EU Phone Call Suggests Kiev Snipers Were Hired by Opposition Coalition not former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich (read this news thread in the comments section of this article). He would have remarked that Ms Ashton did not express any human sentiment whatsoever about 94 persons killed at Maidan events by neo-nazis and that she failed so far to report this publicly since this phone call 26 February, and to call for an international investigation about these crimes. 
Steven Blockmans, this is the most important international law and you failed to protect it. It is justified to say that human rights and fundamental freedoms were violated by fascists and neo-nazis in Kiev which seized power by unconstitutional means.

4) Steven Blockmans failed to mention that US department of State supported the ukrainian opposition, the ones who killed innocents and accused Yanukovich, with "more than $5 billion" during years as claimed by Ms Nuland on a leaked phone call (1, 2).

5) Steven Blockmans failed to mention the fascist way of doing politics the ukrainian opposition leaders nowadays (3, 4). Who does he really want to protect with his comments in Law: ukrainian citizens or fascists, terrorists and neo-nazis? 

6) Steven Blockmans failed to mention how Klitschko betrayed Ukraine for money to NATO (5, 6)

Conclusion at this step:

Thus, if the international community, and Western in particular, is encouraging those acts, who is going to protect the rule of law? What does it means for Western citizens?

So far, the US and the EU representatives have not bothered to seriously rebut allegations by the Kremlin that ukrainian opposition has violated the ukrainian Constitution and human rights.

More worryingly, the US and the EU allow themselves to be inconsistent with their own commitments and are reneging their own words.

This has all the trappings of panicking dictatorships, which crush dissent at home and abroad and portrays confidence in willing to support the citizens' fascist enemy abroad. How can thus anybody trust what the US and the EU representatives say or commit to in the future?


Europeans citizens, our political and civil society representatives who supports the Kiev neo-nazi coup are all attempting to violate our deepest and most honorable values. Will you let them do that there and inevitably after in your country by your own government (the same who declare to support the Kiev coup)? Don't you understand not only the historical shame for us but the deadly path for our societies on this road

Without common values there is no trust, no society. No european spirit whatsoever would remain for a long time: it would be split.